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Faces of the disappeared covered streets in several Mexican cities on Sunday, as people marked the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances on Aug. 30.
Victims' families remembered their relatives by carrying their clothes and shoes and placing photographs in front of government buildings in cities including Mexico City and Guadalajara.
They took over public spaces to show that their struggle has not stopped and to protest that investigations are still falling short.
One by one, family members placed cards and posters with the names and photographs of missing people and settled onto chairs and tarpaulins.
Iris Manriquez, who leads the Busqueda x La Paz collective in Baja California Sur, told Sudcaliforniano that the problem keeps growing in the state and that relatives face real danger, risking their lives for the chance of finding those they have lost.
She said there had been no progress in the investigations and that the work of locating the missing was being carried out by the families themselves.
More than 130,000 people are registered as missing in Mexico. Researchers say the rate of disappearances rose by more than 200% between 2015 and 2025.
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